JAPAN: Tokyo's Games

Citizen
SatoJapan's John Citizen likes his country's forays into China, its
big army and navy, but he never liked the casualty lists, the crushing
taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time
high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not
vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the
Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes
with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days
last week Tokyo, the world's third biggest...